Final Comments Blog Post

·         Hello Sofie,

The truth is that I don’t find the content of this specific design research that interesting but I liked the idea of using the method of comparison which is not very common. The scientist is creating the new prototype and then he compares both old and new methods for getting to his evaluation. (Reply to Sofie’s comment, Theme 5)

·         Hello Bart,

I find your post very enlightening. I was also surprise that design research can be either more qualitative or quantitative. Furthermore I find very interesting that a design research can be also about an absolutely theoretical topic. You can use design methods to prove a pure theoretical idea. A good example of this was the paper “Prototyping for tiny fingers” that was presented during the seminar and was one of the first studies to argue for the use of Lo-Fi prototype. (Bart, theme 5)

·         Hello Tana,

If I understood it correctly during the seminar, design research method can be applied when one wants to develop a new product, service, system, device or tech but also when someone wants to prove a new theory, as the topic of a design research doesn’t have to be strictly technical. I also like the way you summarize this methods goal, even though I would like to add that as Prof. Haibo underlined, if we want to become great we should spend 90% of our time in the identification and 10% in the definition.  (Tana, theme 5)

·         Hello Maksym,

Well this design research is centralized in the development of advanced rectangular microspeakers that can be used for wide liquid-crystal display in mobile phones. The development of mobile phones as multimedia devices has led to limited insertion space for microspeakers, particularly due to wider liquid crystal displays. So the paper proposes a technique in order to enhance the performance of microspeakers in a limited area. (Reply to Maksym’s comment, Theme 5)

·         Hello Stefan and thank you for your comment,

I do think that triangulation is a very interesting method for any research. As your results are of a much better quality and every other researcher can agree with that, they (the results) will be treated with more respect and probably the other researchers will use them as a source for some of their future researches.

 I would like to use triangulation in my master thesis; but this depends on how comfortable I will feel with the thesis theme, and if the obtaining of multiple kind of data will be possible. In the case I will decide to use triangulation in my thesis, I think that I would choose to use data and methodological triangulation, where the researchers use different data sources and collection methods, as I feel that are easier to implement and the whole process will be more intriguing. (Reply to Stefan’s comment, Theme 4)

·         Hey,

I totally agree with your comment. Additionally, I believe that in every research there is subjectivity, either in a bigger or in a smaller grade. Scientists have to be critical with any kind of method they use, both in qualitative and quantitative research. Furthermore, I share your opinion about reflecting on their “doubts” about the results; this could be very helpful for the improvement their research by other scientists in the future.  (Reply to Media Manager Master’s comment, Theme 4)

·         Well after Marina’s post above, I came to believe that content analysis in collaboration with observation seems to be a more common and useful method. It still remains time consuming but at least the results are of a better quality.

Sorry for the long post I will try to stay to 400 words in the reflections’ parts. (Reply to Stefan’s comment, Theme 4)

·         Hello Marina,

I can say that you have a point and your comment was quite enlightening. I hadn’t really thought that the next step after the observation, something that we do with everything and all the time, is the content analysis. In order the things that we observe to make sense and be useful data, we have to analyze them. So basically in my mind observation and content analysis are two common methods that can be combined for a better outcome. (Reply to Marina’s comment, Theme 4)

·         Hello Nicole, it is nice that you actually can give an answer to Martha’s question, I have to say that I was quite confused..  I read an article about e learning written by Selma Vonderwell and one of her conclusions was that during an online course, students do not feel an intimate connection with their instructors; what do you think about that? (Nicole, theme3)

·         Hi Bart, I absolutely share your opinion that the lab exercise on SPSS was introduced too fast and we did not have enough time to “play” with it. Hope that in future courses we will have the opportunity to work with this program again as it can be a very helpful tool for our master thesis. About Martha’s Cleveland-Innes lecture, can you give me some examples about the assets and downsides of Mixed Research Methods? (Bart, theme 3)

·         Hello Marina, Professor “Vanessa Camilleri” in one of her seminar’s about 3D learning stated that face-to-face learning is a very passive form of learning. Moreover, she strongly believed that this is not the appropriate type of learning especially in higher education, as students do not have a strong enough motivation to “dig” deeper in different topics of knowledge. What is your opinion about that? Personally, I do not thing that I share her opinion as I like the idea of getting into a classroom every day, creating bonds with my constructor and classmates and having the source of knowledge right in the same room with me. (Marina, theme 3)

·         Hello Jessie, you have mentioned above that only narrow range of questions that represent specific aspects in reality can be reached by quantitative methods. I don’t actually understand that, can you give me some examples of this type of questions? (Jessie Tian, theme 3)

·         It is very interesting that people were trying to understand and create a format of what THEORY is, since old times. I agree with you that this conversation will always be a "hot topic" in the scientific researches. What type of theory are you thinking to use for your master thesis? (Katya Ksenof theme 2)

·         I absolutely agree with you Katya!! Nicole really nice article! Can you tell us some of the suggestions that were provided in order to help in making users more apt to using interactive websites? (Nicole Deandres, theme 2)

·         Hello Bridget, i think that you should also emphasize that theory is something that ´we´ humans have created. Also i find very interesting your group's discussion about 'The Theory of Transmedia Narratives' and i can say that you have intrigued me to read more about Narratology. [Bridget, theme 2]

·         Hello Marina, I don´t actually understand what you mean by saying that theory isn´t the complete truth. Can you tell me some of your group´s conclusions according to which theory has to be replicable and actually theory itself isn’t the complete truth. [Marina, theme 2]

·         In the third stage of Dutton’s paper Internet is presented as a network of networks, what do you think about that? I believe that as the years pass the internet is becoming more and more powerful and its presence in our lives in becoming more and more necessary. Everyone owns a connection of internet so everyone (individuals and groups) can establish a link with anyone he wants. (Katya Ksenof. Theme 1)

  

·         Sometimes it is possible to "train" our mind or "human computer" to see what we want to see. For example until recently, people did not know that the color orange was a different color, they had convince their brains that it was a close nuance of red, and they were referring to it as the red color. (Marina B. theme 1)

·         Hello Nicole, do you think that one day internet social networking campaigns will replace completely the “old” campaigns? In my opinion, I believe that no matter how profitable the “new” campaigns are they still cannot replace the old, as people will always want to see for example their favorite actor giving an interview in their home town. (Nicole deandres  -theme 1)

·         Hello Bridget, if you were a scholar do you think that you would try to maintain a blog and keep on using the SMT in a great scale? [Bridget, theme 1]